unimportant - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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From un- + important.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈpɔːtənt/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈpɔɹtənt/
• (rhotic, without the horse_–_hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈpo(ː)ɹtənt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse_–_hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈpoə.tənt/

unimportant (comparative more unimportant, superlative most unimportant)

1. petty; not important or noteworthy
   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insignificant
   Antonym: important
   • 2009 July 12, David Orr, “Too Close to Touch”, in New York Times‎[1]:
     It’s to the credit of this remarkable writer that those absences seem unimportant beside what is so rousingly present.

• unimportantly
• unimportance

not important or noteworthy — see also irrelevant

• Bulgarian: маловажен (bg) (malovažen)
• Catalan: irrelevant, intranscendent
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 不重要 (bù zhòngyào)
• Czech: nedůležitý (cs)
• Danish: uvigtig
• Dutch: onbelangrijk (nl)
• Esperanto: malgrava
• Finnish: vähämerkityksellinen, vähäinen (fi)
• French: sans importance
• Galician: intranscendente, irrelevante (gl)
• Georgian: უმნიშვნელო (umnišvnelo), არამნიშვნელოვანი (aramnišvnelovani)
• German: unwichtig (de)
• Greek: ασήμαντος (el) (asímantos)
• Hungarian: lényegtelen (hu), nem fontos
• Japanese: 重要でない (ja) (じゅうようでない, jūyō denai)
• Māori: korokororiki, kūrapa, iti
• Mari:
  Eastern Mari: изи (izi)
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: uviktig
  Nynorsk: uviktig
• Polish: nieważny (pl) m, bez znaczenia m
• Portuguese: desimportante (pt)
• Romanian: neimportant (ro)
• Russian: нева́жный (ru) (nevážnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: неважан
  Latin: nevažan (sh)
• Spanish: sin importancia, intranscendente (es), de poca monta (es), pichiruche (es), pichiruchi, pichirruchi
• Swedish: oviktig (sv)
• Turkish: önemsiz (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: یسیر (yesir)
• Ukrainian: неважли́вий (nevažlývyj)